Sentences with phrase «protect such areas»
The first steps are to catalyse local communities, national governments and multilateral agencies to protect such areas.
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Being unaware of valuation information means that business owners do not have sufficient insight into key areas of optimal knowledge, such as the right capital structure for the business, and the proper insurance coverage needed to protect it.
Money is also pouring into such areas as real estate: Baku is home to new shopping centers, hotels and apartments, all growing up around the Unesco - protected Old City that remains at Baku's heart.
In this most elementary area of parent - child relationships, such a notion rescues discipline from connotations of punishment and has the further virtue of counseling foresight, according to which the best disciplining parent is the one who anticipates that from which the child alone can not protect himself and does something about it before the child is injured.
North Shore School District 112 joins a growing list of schools in the Chicago area and nationwide trying to find the right balance between protecting allergic students and allowing others to eat typical school lunch fare, such as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
The exhibit's four areas introduce different climate change challenges, such as how natural features can protect coastal homes, ways for houses to save energy, and sustainable strategies that come from natural materials.
But the American Academy of Pediatrics now states that sunscreen is probably safe to use on younger children, especially if you just use it on small areas of your baby's skin that are exposed to the sun and not protected by clothing such as the hands and face.
SIgA also plays a key role in protecting susceptible areas such as the oral cavity and lungs, and it even helps us as we get older from forms of illness and stress.
So what can you do to protect such a large and decorative area in your home?
Democratic state Sen. Brad Hoylman is the new lead sponsor of legislation aimed at protecting transgender people from discrimination in a variety of key areas such as the workplace and in housing.
The purpose of such an act must be to protect civilians or civilian populated areas.
Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday announced his plans for an executive order to protect transgender rights when it comes to areas such as housing and unemployment.
In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.
New development in such environmentally sensitive areas is prohibited to protect the quality and safety of Long Island's sole - source drinking water aquifer, officials said in a news release.
In particular the low - cost power generated at the Niagara Power Project has protected thousands of existing area jobs, and assisted in making our area attractive to new ventures such as the Yahoo Data Center.
The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.
Because the catch of fish in these areas was lower, such measures would protect many species but wouldn't cut into the total catch as deeply, the authors argue in their report, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
As the first worldwide search for such hotspots, the research strengthens the argument for new marine protected areas and pinpoints areas where such no - fishing zones would be most effective.
This study shows that coexistence of conservation and development is possible, provided that wildlife are offered refuges, such as the small protected areas that constitute the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary.
This means that keeping a few streams within protected areas is not enough to safeguard such biodiversity.
With some tweaking, the map should help Conservation International and the Guyanese government pinpoint more areas to protect, such as those with rare species like the giant anteater, and others where some activity, such as low - impact logging, could continue under REDD +.
Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation of new protected areas or harvest quotas, the study suggests.
«This landscape approach requires an integrated threats - based strategy involving a series of long - term partnerships with territorial stakeholders such as protected areas, indigenous territories, municipal governments and others.
Now a team of Stanford researchers has developed a computer model that can help understand the ways that activities such as clear - cutting and welfare programs might impact the future of the land and the people who live inside protected areas of the rainforest.
But Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, who invented the software used to define such sites, says planners need to be sure to conserve 20 percent or more of every type of habitat within a protected area, and Australia hasn't done that.
One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.
Larger areas are thought to be generally more effective than smaller ones, Pauly says, because they have a smaller area of edge per volume of protected waters, meaning that there is less opportunity for outside influences, such as illegal fishermen or pollution, to creep into the protected area.
Such measures include the establishment and effective management of protected areas and networks of wildlife corridors; restoration of degraded ecosystems; control of invasive alien species and reintroduction of wild animals.
The significance and future value of protecting such vast areas of coral reef and associated marine habitat can not be overstated.
The conference will address issues such as marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, marine pollution, and climate - related impacts on the oceans.
The South Africa — based Peace Parks Foundation, which works to promote jointly managed transborder protected areas around the world, has helped establish several such regions in Africa, including a huge park linking Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, are thought to provide a refuge for wildlife, but according to a new study, many of these areas are not safe from light pollution.
The umbrella species concept is one surrogate species strategy in which a species with large area requirements — such as the greater sage grouse — is provided sufficient protected habitat.
Regions such as the bay areas of the west coast in the US are usually protected from surges from outside but their basins are larger than that of the Clyde and their channels to the ocean are narrower.»
INBio «handled the subject and biodiversity better than any country in the world,» he says that, thanks to INBio, «no other country has developed a national inventory of biodiversity like Costa Rica and no other country has such precise information about the species present in their protected areas.»
In other countries, such as the USA, strategically placed protected areas have proved successful in protecting vulnerable areas of seabed while boosting the breeding and growth rates of scallops.
The authors suggest steps that the federation and government can take to reaffirm their positions on providing an ecologically - friendly World Cup, such as promoting the «Parques da Copa» project, protecting areas of the Caatinga, and instituting a conservation plan for the Tolypeutes tricinctus species.
Such wildlife corridors linking up larger but isolated protected areas are the most widely adopted strategy for halting biodiversity decline, with tens of millions of dollars spent creating and protecting them every year.
It also has the ability to set up marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, such as one proposed for the Ross Sea.
• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.
«Most of our tools for managing coastal species and ecosystems — such as marine protected areas and regulating point source pollution — are spatially explicit, and this research illustrates there may be hotspots of vulnerability or resilience that we could protect or manage locally,» she said.
Environmentalists have suggested such a strategy in China and other nations where sacred natural areas function as de facto protected natural areas.
«Our [eight diesel generators] are protected from the seismic and hydrology hazards expected in the area,» in addition to being buried in hardened facilities, says TVA spokesman, Terry Johnson, which operates three such boiling - water reactors at Browns Ferry.
In a worrying finding for conservation managers, cat densities were found to be the same both inside and outside conservation reserves, such as National Parks, showing that declaring protected areas alone is not enough to safeguard our native wildlife.
«SESYNC is a leader in bringing together scholars to address emerging problems — such as issues around marine protected areas and conservation — through new interdisciplinary research partnerships to improve understanding,» said Margaret Palmer, Director of SESYNC and a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland.
The research team ruled out places that would come into conflict with other human uses, such as high shipping zones and marine protected areas, and excluded ocean depths that exceed 200 meters, following current industry practice to keep their assessment economically realistic.
ter Steege: «Thus, if we can protect these areas from threats they face, such as fires, degradation, deforestation, large - scale damage, and mining, the Amazon could be a showcase of large - scale conservation worldwide.»
Reducing other stressors such as pollution and overfishing, and the introduction of large scale marine protected areas, may help build some resilience to ocean acidification.»
«Across the world, people are investing billions of dollars to protect valuable natural areas, as well as making enormous investments in restoring such areas after natural disasters,» said Jianguo «Jack» Liu, director of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and a co-author.
Human - produced noise doubles the background sound levels in 63 percent of protected areas, and raises it tenfold in 21 percent of such landscapes.